Report Title:

Collective Bargaining Agreements; Four-Year Terms

 

Description:

Requires every collective bargaining agreement between a public employer and public employees to have a 4-year term.

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1201

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT


 

 

RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  The purpose of this Act is to require every collective bargaining agreement between a public employer and public employees to have a four-year term.

     SECTION 2.  Section 89-10, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsections (b) and (c) to read as follows:

     "(b)  All cost items shall be subject to appropriations in the relevant fiscal years by the appropriate legislative bodies.  The employer shall submit within ten days of the date on which the agreement is ratified by the employees concerned all cost items contained therein to the appropriate legislative bodies, except that if any cost items require appropriation by the state legislature and it is not in session at the time, the cost items shall be submitted for inclusion in the governor's next operating budget within ten days after the date on which the agreement is ratified.

     The state legislature or the legislative bodies of the counties acting in concert, as the case may be, may approve or reject the cost items submitted to them, as a whole.  If the state legislature or the legislative body of any county rejects any of the cost items submitted to them, all cost items submitted shall be returned to the parties for further bargaining.

     (c)  Because effective and orderly operations of government are essential to the public, it is declared to be in the public interest that [in the course of collective bargaining, the public employer and the exclusive representative for each bargaining unit shall by mutual agreement include provisions in the] every collective bargaining agreement [for that bargaining unit for] negotiated under this chapter shall be for a four-year term, with an expiration date [which will be on] of June 30th of an odd-numbered year.

     The parties may include provisions for reopening during the term of a collective bargaining agreement; provided that cost items as defined in section 89-2 shall be subject to the requirements of this section."

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall first apply to every collective bargaining agreement, the term of which commences on July 1, 2011.  Every such agreement shall expire on June 30, 2015.  With respect to a collective bargaining agreement, the term of which commences on July 1, 2009, it shall expire on June 30, 2011.

     SECTION 4.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 5.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

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